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Past Proceedings

1MCS

  1. John S. Croucher - Winning with science
  2. David Hoffman - A team rating system
  3. M Hayes and J M Norman - Strategy in fell running: an analysis of the Bob
  4. Graham round
  5. Raymond Stefani - Applying least squares to team sports and Olympic winning performances
  6. Jon Patrick - The marriage of mathematics and computer technologies for sport improvement
  7. Mark Johnston - An analysis of scoring policies in one day cricket
  8. Stephen Clarke - Computer and human tipping of AFL football - a comparison of 1991 results
  9. Robert Neal - A mathematical model of giant swings on the horizontal bar
  10. David Hoffman - A taxonomy of sporting events applying operations research methodology
  11. Maurice N. Brearley - Hang Gliders, wobbles and myths
  12. Geoff Aldis, Glenn Fulford, Rodney Weber and Neville de Mestre - Flight of a football
  13. Neville de Mestre - Mathematics applied to sport

2MCS

  1. M. Hubbard - Simulating sensitive dynamic control of a bobsled
  2. R Hugh Morton - The relationship between power demand and endurance time
  3. Geoffrey Paull and Ian Case - Ecological validity in sports research through video simulation
  4. W.H. Cogill - The mathematics of bicycling
  5. Stephen R. Clarke - An adjustive rating system for tennis and squash players
  6. Rodney Barrett and Robert Neal - A method for determining sand-running efficiency
  7. D.H. Lamble and A.K. Easton - The dynamics of the lawn bowl revisited
  8. Maurice n. Brearley - Driving a ball with a golf club
  9. Stephen R. Clarke - Variability of scores and consistency in sport
  10. Pam Norton Softball statistics
  11. S. Ganesalingam, K. Kumar and S. Ganeshanandam - A statistical look at cricket data
  12. R.O. Weber and N.J. de Mestre - Finals draws
  13. Richard Monypenny - Survey of useful systems references
  14. Deborah Hoare - Sport Search - a sports counselling program for students
  15. Maurice N. Brearley - Driving a ball with a golf club
  16. John Scott and Neville de Mestre - Direct golf putting dynamics and strategies
  17. John Baker - Towards a preferred golf swing and its application to teaching golf
  18. Heather J. Whitford - Golf scores, exploratory data analysis and the poisson model
  19. Anthony K. Whitford - The Australian golf handicapping system
  20. Ian Collings and Neville de Mestre - Low-angle golf trajectories

3MCS

  1. R Hugh Morton - An analysis of world records for races run entirely in lanes
  2. Frank Duckworth and Tony Lewis - A fair method for resetting the target in interrupted one-day cricket matches
  3. Kuldeep Kumar - Is cricket really by chance?
  4. J. E. Baker - Ground reaction forces and hub position in the golfswing
  5. R Hugh Morton - Mathematics of the human engine evaluation of power and endurance
  6. David H. Noble - Formation of netball teams for a series of trial matches
  7. Stephen R Clarke - Home advantage in balanced competitions English Soccer 1991 - 1996
  8. Pam Norton - The "leveller system" tennis tournament
  9. Steve Politi - and Ian T. Heazlewood Exercise physiological, biomechanical and kinathropometric predictors of bicycle motor cross in young adults: a preliminary study
  10. Ian Smith - The national statistical initiative
  11. Alex McNabb - Doing maths standing on your head
  12. Ian T. Heazlewood and Gavin Lackey - The use of mathematical models to predict elite athletic performance at the Olympic games
  13. William F. Benter, George J. Miel and P. Diane - Turnbough Modelling distance preference in thoroughbred racehorses
  14. Ravi Phatarfod - Betting strategies in horse races
  15. Kuldeep Kumar, S. Ganesalingam and Siva Ganesh - Statistical analysis of horse racing data
  16. David L. Dowe, Graham E. Farr, A. John Hurst and Kevin L. Lentin - Information-Theoretic Football Tipping

4MCS

  1. John S. Croucher - Using Computers and Scientific Method to Determine Optimal Strategies in Tennis
  2. Ian L. Collings and Neville J. De Mestre - A refined aerodynamic model for low trajectory flight
  3. Maurice N. Brearley and Neville J. De Mestre - The effect of oar flexing on rowing performance
  4. Iain Skinner - A geometrical argument defining an order relation for all-round performances in cricket
  5. Ian Heazlewood and Gavin Lackey - Mathematical models that predict performance decline in elite veteran athletes 30-90 years in the sprint, distance and jump events
  6. Ian Heazlewood and Gavin Lackey - The use of mathematical models to predict elite swimming performance
  7. George A. Christos - The AFL finals: It's more than a game
  8. Nikoleta Tomecko and Jerzy A. Filar - Player assignments in Australian rules football
  9. George A. Christos - It's just not cricket
  10. Derek R. Bingham, Basil M. De Silva and Tim B. Swartz - Issues in cricket and golf
  11. Jim Cross - Scheduling
  12. Tony Lewis and Frank Duckworth - Developments in the Duckworth Lewis (D/L) method of target resetting in one day cricket matches
  13. Stephen R. Clarke - How Fair is the AFL Draw?
  14. J.P. Verma and Kuldeep Kumar - Sport and physical fitness: an application of factor analysis for developing a test battery
  15. Chris Harman - "Who's on first!" "What?" "What's on second!" and how 'what' got there on an optimal baserunning path
  16. Graeme L. Cohen - The subject: Mathematics in Sport
  17. Andrew Patterson and Stephen R. Clarke - An analysis of team statistics in Australian Rules Football
  18. W.H. Cogill - The mathematics of bicycling part II
  19. Neville J. De Mestre, Mont Hubbard and John Scott - Optimizing the Shot Put

5MCS

  1. Rod Cross (invited lecture) - Mathematics and physics in ball sports
  2. Mel C. Siff (invited lecture) - Biomechanics as an ergogenic aid in strength training
  3. Paul Allsopp, Stephen R. Clarke - Methods for quantifying performances in one-day cricket
  4. Michael Bailey - Identifying arbitrage opportunities in AFL betting markets through mathematical modelling
  5. Anthony B. Bedford, Stephen R. Clarke - A comparison of the ATP ratings with a smoothing method for match prediction
  6. Maurice N. Brearley, Neville J. de Mestre - Dynamics of the long jump
  7. K. J. Byun - Teaching statistics through sport
  8. George Christos - Variations in random pairing finals systems
  9. Stephen R. Clarke - Home advantage in the Olympic Games
  10. G. L. Cohen - An annotated bibliography of mathematical articles on sport amenable to elementary university mathematics teaching
  11. John S. Croucher - Player ratings in one-day cricket
  12. Neville de Mestre, Graeme Cohen - The flight of a cricket ball
  13. Basil M. de Silva, Greg R. Pond, Tim B. Swartz - Applications of the DuckworthLewis method
  14. Chris Harman - Curvature effects in running the 200 and 400 metre sprints
  15. M. Hubbard , S. A. Hummel - Simulation of frisbee flight
  16. Jonathan Lowe, Stephen, R. Clarke - An analysis of the AFL final eight system
  17. J. S. B. Mather - The use of computers to predict the performance of golf clubs
  18. R. Hugh Morton, Veronique Billat - Modelling endurance time at VO2max
  19. Pam Norton, Stephen R. Clarke - Home ground advantage in the Australian Netball League (Commonwealth Bank Trophy)
  20. Elliot Tonkes - Optimising downwind sailing
  21. J. P. Verma - A statistical approach for developing weighted norms based on difficulty ratings on selected fitness parameters for boys in the age group 13-16 years
  22. Julian Z. Wang, Peter Cooke - Extreme value models in sporting data analysis
  23. R. E. D. Ferdinands, K. A. Broughan, H. Round - Cricket bowling: a two-segment Lagrangian model (abstract only)
  24. L. H. Liyanage, S. Terry and N. Hopkins - A greyhound racing betting strategy (abstract only)
  25. Iain Skinner - Seasonal variations and cricket's rule changes (abstract only)

6MCS

  1. Ray Stefani (invited lecture) - The fundamental nature of differential male/female world and Olympic winning performances, sports and rating systems
  2. Graham Pollard and Ken Noble - The characteristics of some new scoring systems in tennis
  3. Tony Lewis and Frank Duckworth - Review of the application of the Duckworth/Lewis method of target resetting in one-day cricket
  4. Paul Allsopp and Stephen Clarke - Factors affecting outcomes in test-match cricket
  5. Tim Swartz and Robin Insley - Studying the bankroll in sports gambling
  6. Maurice Brearley and Neville de Mestre - How do lawn bowls and golf balls slow down on grass?
  7. Stephen Clarke and Pam Norton - Collecting statistics at the Australian Open Tennis Championship
  8. Hugh Morton - Team ratings and home advantage in SANZAR rugby union 2000-2001
  9. Pam Norton and Stephen Clarke - Serving up some grand slam tennis statistics
  10. Katherine Hogarth, M.Yeardon and Dave Stump - Analysis of a twisting dive
  11. Michell de Lara - Scuba diving (abstract)
  12. Stephen Gray and Ahn Le (invited lecture) - How to fix a one-day international cricket match
  13. Graham McMahon and Neville de Mestre - Tennis serving strategies
  14. John Croucher - Analyzing scores in English premier league soccer
  15. David Panton, Kylie Bryant and Jan Schreuder - Optimisation tools for round-robin and partial round-robin sporting fixtures
  16. Michael Bailey and Stephen Clarke - Predicting the Brownlow medal winner
  17. Emil Muresan, Jelle Geerits and Bart De Moor - Soccer: From match taping to analysis
  18. Emil Muresan, Jelle Geerits and Bart De Moor - Video analysis in sports: Video-coach
  19. Graeme Cohen, Shawn Clowes and Ljiljana Tomljanovic - Dynamic evaluation of conditional probabilities of winning a tennis match
  20. Graham Pollard - The effect of a variation to the assumption that the probability of winning a point in tennis is constant
  21. Tony Lewis and Frank Duckworth - Can the probability of winning a one-day cricket match be maintained across a stoppage?
  22. Graeme Cohen (invited lecture) - Cricketing chances
  23. Chris Harman - A biomechanical power model for world-class 400 metre running
  24. Graham Pollard and Ken Noble - A solution to the unfairness of the tiebreak game when used in tennis doubles
  25. George Christos and Jamie Simpson - Fixing the fixtures with genetic algorithms
  26. Tristan Barnett and Stephen Clarke - Using Microsoft Excel to model a tennis match
  27. Elliot Tonkes - Dartboard arrangements with a concave penalty function

7MCS

  1. Keith Davids and Chris Button - Variability and constraints in dynamical movement systems
  2. Mike Hughes - Notational analysis: A mathematical perspective
  3. Michael Bailey and Stephen Clarke - Deriving a profit from Australian Rules football: a statistical approach
  4. Tristan Barnett, Alan Brown and Stephen Clarke - Optimal use of tennis resources
  5. Anthony Bedford - Predicting women's World Cup handball match outcomes using optimised ratings models
  6. Anthony Bedford and Cliff Da Costa - A ratings based analysis of Oceania's road to the World Cup
  7. Paul Bracewell - Extraction, interpretation and utilisation of meaningful information about individual rugby performance using data mining
  8. Michael Cameron - Using performance or results to measure the quality of sports competitors
  9. John Cogill - The mathematics of bicycling part 3: the somersault
  10. Graeme Cohen - A new statistic in cricket: the slog factor
  11. John Croucher - A mathematical view of sports betting
  12. Neville de Mestre - Bouncing a water polo ball
  13. Don Forbes and Stephen Clarke - A seven-state markov process for modelling Australian Rules football
  14. Richard Green - Augmented reality user interfaces for biomechanical data overlays
  15. Manohita Gurram and Sundaram Narayanan - Comparison of the methods to reset targets for interrupted one-day cricket matches
  16. John Hammond - Using performance analysis technology to evaluate the instructional process in sport
  17. Chris Harman and Neville de Mestre - The mechanics and perceptions of judging an outfield catch
  18. Ray Hoare - An investigation of rugby test results
  19. Tony Lewis - Steps towards fairer one-day cricketing measures of performance
  20. Hugh Morton - On optimal race pace
  21. Paul Newton and Graham Pollard - Service neutral scoring strategies in tennis
  22. John Norman and Stephen Clarke - Dynamic programming in cricket: batting on a sticky wicket
  23. Pam Norton - Is there a difference in the predictability of men's and women's basketball matches
  24. Matthew Ovens - If it rains, do you still have a sporting chance?
  25. Graham Pollard - Can a tennis player increase the probability of winning a point when it is more important
  26. Graham Pollard and Ken Noble - Some attractive properties of the 16-point tiebreak game in tennis
  27. Graham Pollard and Ken Noble - benefits of a new game scoring system in tennis: the 50-40 game
  28. Graham Pollard and Ken Noble - The effect of having correlated point outcomes in tennis
  29. George Serrallach and Andy Martin - The fallacy of the use of pure statistics in sport
  30. Stefan Yelas and Stephen Clarke - Forecasting the 2003 Rugby World Cup

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